Subjects  |  Fictional

Great Dangaroo Flood

Fiction, Fictional

Henry Earlforward's bookshop

Bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel "Riceyman Steps" set in Clerkenwell.

Fiction, Fictional

Sherlock Holmes

Originally named Sheridan Hope, then Sherringford Holmes and finally Sherlock Holmes. Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first story was begun in 1886. The Festival of Britain had an exhibition es...

Fiction, Fictional, Seriously Famous

Kaled

Also known as "Lara's page", from Byron's poem: Lara. Precis of the poem: Lara is a lord with a page Kaled who, it turns out, is a woman in disguise. On Lara's death Kaled dies from grief. This po...

Fiction, Fictional

Charles Kitterbell

A character in Charles Dickens' sketches by Boz "The Bloomsbury Christening".

Fiction, Fictional

Les Miserables the musical

Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985.  Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...

Media, Fictional, Music / songs, Theatre

Little Nell and Granddad

Two of Charles Dickens characters from The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1). Oscar Wilde's response? "It would require a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell".

Fiction, Fictional

Marley's ghost

One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).

Fiction, Fictional, Paranormal

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple, village spinster detective, created by Agatha Christie.  Played by many actors, including: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson.

Fiction, Fictional

Mr. Micawber

One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850), based on Dickens' own father.

Fiction, Fictional